His first book was Katie’s War, which won the IBBY Sweden Peter Pan Award 2000. It was followed by The Cinnamon Tree. Aubrey then began the Louise trilogy, with Wings Over Delft, which won the Bisto Book of the Year Award 2004, Ireland’s most prestigious children’s literature prize, and is included in the White Ravens 2004 – a selection of outstanding international books for children and young adults made by the International Youth Library in Munich. The second part of the trilogy, The Rainbow Bridge, was published in 2004, and the third and final part, In the Claws of the Eagle, in 2006. Aubrey’s books have been translated into German, Swedish, Danish and Serbian.
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Flegg, A.M.
The cinnamon tree : a novel set in Africa
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823.9’14[J]
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